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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: minutes' repose, rung his bell to start the train, at a moment when two pious men were on their knees in the dust, but halfway through their prayers. Placed in imminent peril of being forsaken, these good Moslems cast a wistful glance at the passengers hurriedly crowding in, and gabbled faster than Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: minutes' repose, rung his bell to start the train, at a moment when two pious men were on their knees in the dust, but halfway through their prayers. Placed in imminent peril of being forsaken, these good Moslems cast a wistful glance at the passengers hurriedly crowding in, and gabbled faster than ever, in hopes of getting to the end ere the fatal moment should come. Their virtuous efforts, however, availed them not. They were forced to give in. The train would not stay. I saw them reluctantly snatch up their carpets, and scamper to their places in a most undignified manner. THE DESEET. Long before you reach Cairo the Desert creeps into view. From the left window of the carriage you see " it looming on the eastern horizon, like a coast of cloudland veiled in an amethyst light. First a drift of delicate rose-coloured haze, then a luminous bank of purple, and then the faint lines and undulations of that sandy sea become manifest. Yes; that is The Desert-the wild, dreamy, desolate Desert, over which the sons of Jacob went and came on their weary quest for corn; over which Moses led Israel from his bitter bondage; over which Pharaoh's proud hosts, hotly pursuing, rushed blindfold to their doom. The first sight of the Desert strikes you with THE DESERT. 17 feelings akin to those called up by the first sight of the sea. There is the same indefinable sense of melancholy, the same wild majesty, the same mystery. Both speak to you with one voice; but the speech of the Desert is deeper than that of the ocean. There is a profounder calm in the Desert than in the sea! Both, indeed, are subject to paroxysms of unrest-are torn and wracked by tempests-are lashed suddenly into storm, changing colour and aspect in moments of dark ungovernable fury. But the passion- fit Books, , Under-Egyptian-Palms-Or-Three-Bachelors-Journeyings-on-the-Nile~~Howard-Hopley, 999999999, Under Egyptian Palms; Or, Three Bachelors' Journeyings on the Nile, Howard Hopley, 0217140211, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 162 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=9mm, Gew.=245gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 162 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=9mm, Gew.=245gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lair, as the crow flies is not very far distant. But nearest of all?and you can even now almost follow the track of a caravan creeping slowly over those shifting sands?lies the old route " up " to Canaan; the old route which has never changed; the route by which Abraham " went down into Egypt;" the route by which you, fellow-traveller, if you be so minded, will, after wintering in Egypt, " go up " into Palestine. CHAPTER in. FIRST SIGHT OF CAIRO. As the afternoon advances you are on the look-out for the earliest view of this ancient capital. The country around, hitherto scant of incident, now begins to be richly cultivated. Orange and olive plantations multiply, and the sweet scent of flowering acanthus is borne to you on the summer air. So also is the sleepy hum of countless rustic water- wheels, oxen-turned, which send their little rivers wandering hither and thither among the trees of the garden?-now in bright sunshine, now in deep leafy gloom?and murmur of sweet freshness and fertility wherever they go. Various signs indicate your approach to some great centre of human resort; you are nearing the skirts of a city. But no outlying houses or villas appear, as would be the case in western lands. Cairo, like most eastern towns, is self-contained?a city within walls?casting outside but its refuse, throwing off its dead, like the serpenther skin, and thus encompassed but by lofty mounds of debris and a waste of scattered cemeteries. A turn of the road, and it opens into view from afar?a fairy city, lapped in a warm rosy light, crouching at the rocky foot of one of the desert hills 1 Although this point is by no means an advantageous one for a first introduction, few are disappointed. The utter change from everything European itself keeps up a kindly illusion. Across a re...<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 162 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=9mm, Gew.=245gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 162 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=9mm, Gew.=245gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lair, as the crow flies is not very far distant. But nearest of all?and you can even now almost follow the track of a caravan creeping slowly over those shifting sands?lies the old route " up " to Canaan; the old route which has never changed; the route by which Abraham " went down into Egypt;" the route by which you, fellow-traveller, if you be so minded, will, after wintering in Egypt, " go up " into Palestine. CHAPTER in. FIRST SIGHT OF CAIRO. As the afternoon advances you are on the look-out for the earliest view of this ancient capital. The country around, hitherto scant of incident, now begins to be richly cultivated. Orange and olive plantations multiply, and the sweet scent of flowering acanthus is borne to you on the summer air. So also is the sleepy hum of countless rustic water- wheels, oxen-turned, which send their little rivers wandering hither and thither among the trees of the garden?-now in bright sunshine, now in deep leafy gloom?and murmur of sweet freshness and fertility wherever they go. Various signs indicate your approach to some great centre of human resort; you are nearing the skirts of a city. But no outlying houses or villas appear, as would be the case in western lands. Cairo, like most eastern towns, is self-contained?a city within walls?casting outside but its refuse, throwing off its dead, like the serpenther skin, and thus encompassed but by lofty mounds of debris and a waste of scattered cemeteries. A turn of the road, and it opens into view from afar?a fairy city, lapped in a warm rosy light, crouching at the rocky foot of one of the desert hills 1 Although this point is by no means an advantageous one for a first introduction, few are disappointed. The utter change from everything European itself keeps up a kindly illusion. Across a re...<

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lair, as the crow flies is not very far distant. But nearest of all?and you can even now almost follow the track of a caravan creeping slowly over those shifting sands?lies the old route " up " to Canaan the old route which has never changed the route by which Abraham " went down into Egypt" the route by which you, fellow-traveller, if you be so minded, will, after wintering in Egypt, " go up " into Palestine. CHAPTER in. FIRST SIGHT OF CAIRO. As the afternoon advances you are on the look-out for the earliest view of this ancient capital. The country around, hitherto scant of incident, now begins to be richly cultivated. Orange and olive plantations multiply, and the sweet scent of flowering acanthus is borne to you on the summer air. So also is the sleepy hum of countless rustic water- wheels, oxen-turned, which send their little rivers wandering hither and thither among the trees of the garden?-now in bright sunshine, now in deep leafy gloom?and murmur of sweet freshness and fertility wherever they go. Various signs indicate your approach to some great centre of human resort you are nearing the skirts of a city. But no outlying houses or villas appear, as would be the case in western lands. Cairo, like most eastern towns, is self-contained?a city within walls?casting outside but its refuse, throwing off its dead, like the serpenther skin, and thus encompassed but by lofty mounds of debris and a waste of scattered cemeteries. A turn of the road, and it opens into view from afar?a fairy city, lapped in a warm rosy light, crouching at the rocky foot of one of the desert hills 1 Although this point is by no means an advantageous one for a first introduction, few are disappointed. The utter change from everything European itself keeps up a kindly illusion. Across a re...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen<

ISBN: 9780217140218

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